Golfers With Most Wins on the Japan Tour
The Japan Golf Tour (or JGTO, for Japan Golf Tour Organization) was founded in 1973. Since then, there is one golfer more than 40 wins ahead of anyone else. From 1973 until his final win in 2002, Masashi Ozaki — better-known to most golf fans as Jumbo Ozaki — won a whopping 94 times on the JGTO. Isao Aoki is the distant runner-up, the only other golfer so far to crack 50 wins on this tour.
All three of the Ozaki brothers show up on the following list. Joe Ozaki scored 32 wins and Jet Ozaki had 15.
Japan Golf Tour's Career Wins Leaders
All golfers with at least 12 wins are listed.
| Golfer | Wins | Span |
| Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki | 94 | 1973–2002 |
| Isao Aoki | 51 | 1973–1992 |
| Tsuneyuki "Tommy" Nakajima | 48 | 1976–2006 |
| Naomichi "Joe" Ozaki | 32 | 1984–2005 |
| Shingo Katayama | 31 | 1998–2017 |
| Masahiro Kuramoto | 30 | 1980–2003 |
| Teruo Sugihara | 28 | 1973–1990 |
| Yuta Ikeda | 21 | 2009–2019 |
| Graham Marsh | 20 | 1973–1990 |
| Toru Nakamura | 20 | 1973–1992 |
| Toru Taniguchi | 20 | 1998–2018 |
| Ryo Ishikawa | 19 | 2007–2024 |
| Hideto Tanihara | 19 | 2003–2023 |
| Hiroyuki Fujita | 18 | 1997–2014 |
| Toshimitsu Izawa | 16 | 1995–2007 |
| Norio Suzuki | 16 | 1974–1982 |
| Brendan Jones | 15 | 2002–2019 |
| Tateo "Jet" Ozaki | 15 | 1984–2000 |
| Saburo Fujiki | 14 | 1981–1993 |
| David Ishii | 14 | 1985–1994 |
| K.T. Kim | 14 | 2010–2019 |
| Yoshitaka Yamamoto | 13 | 1973–1993 |
| Katsumasa Miyamoto | 12 | 1998–2019 |
| Brian Watts | 12 | 1994–1998 |
The highest-ranking golfer not from Japan is Australia's Graham Marsh, with 20 wins. The highest-ranking American golfer is David Ishii with 14 wins. Todd Hamilton of the USA just misses making our list with 11 victories.
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Japan Golf Tour. "Tour Stats," Tour Victory Leaders, https://www.jgto.org/en/stats/tour/champions_ranking?year=2024
